Motivational Quotes

Passion

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Passion

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Diderot, Denis